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A major row has broken out on the Barbican Estate over Nicolas Hare Architects’ plans for a school expansion, which residents claim will be ‘a major threat to the architectural heritage’ of the listed complex

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The latest AJ features three Manchester projects: SimpsonHaugh Architects’ No 1 Spinningfields office building; Roof Gardens low-rise, high-density housing by Ollier Smurthwaite; and BDP’s extension and refurbishment of the Alliance Manchester Business School. And we investigate whether Manchester City Region can meet its ambitious carbon target while continuing to grow upwards and outwards. PLUS The architects who ...

IS A NEW BUILDING NEEDED?

In considering options, the more efficient use of existing buildings should always be evaluated. Internal reorganisation, or the application of new working practices, often using new technologies intensively, can produce very substantial efficiencies which may obviate the need for a new building. Relocation may lead to staff losses. The decision to develop or refurbish should be driven by the opportunity cost, and the anticipated return from each alternative.

The government is in danger of missing its legally binding climate change targets unless the UK urgently adapts its existing housing stock and slashes emissions from new homes, its climate watchdog has warned

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